Maggie McCarthy

Publications

Books

  • Co-editor with Randall Halle, Light Motives. German Popular Cinema in Perspective. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.

Essays in Anthologies

  • "Adaptation and Autobiographical Auteurism in Three Works by Doris Dörrie" in Books in Motion: Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship. Ed. Mireia Aragay. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005.
  • "Angst Takes a Holiday in Doris Dörrie's Am I Beautiful?" Light Motives. German Popular Cinema in Perspective.
  • "Mapping Goethe's Wilhelm Meister onto Wenders' Wrong Move." Eighteenth-Century Fiction on Film. Ed. Robert Mayer. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
  • "The Representation of Prostitutes in Literature and Film: Margarete Böhme and G.W. Pabst." Commodities of Desire: The Prostitute in Modern German Literature, Ed. Christiane Schönfeld. Columbia: Camden House, 2000.
  • "Transforming Visions: A French Toast to American Girlhood in Luc Besson's The Professional." Millennium Girls: Today's Girls Around the World, Ed. Sherrie A. Inness. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998.
  • "Murder and Self-Resuscitation in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina." Out From the Shadows. Essays on Contemporary Austrian Women Writers and Filmmakers. Ed. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 1997.

Essays in Journals

  • "Putting Stones in Place: Anne Duden and German Acts of Memory," German Quarterly 77 (2) spring 2004.
  • "Teutonic Water: Effervescent Otherness in Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me," Camera Obscura 44, 2000.
  • "Consolidating, Consuming and Annulling Identity in Jutta Brückner's Hungerjahre." Women in German Yearbook 11, 1995.

Essays on the Web

Dictionary Entries

  • Entries on Novella and Bildungsroman for The Routledge Encyclopia of Narrative Theory, Eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan. London: Routledge, 2005.

In Progress

  • "Surface Sheen and Charged Bodies: Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box" for Columbia UP anthology on Weimar Film
  • Book review of German Monitor volume: Anne Duden. A Revolution of Words. Approaches to her Fiction, Poetry and Essays. Eds., Heike Bartel and Elizabeth Boa. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.
  • "Sleepwalking into the New Millennium: Generation Golf and Winterschläfer"

Reviews

  • Chantal Gahlinger, Der Weg zur weiblichen Autonomie. Zur Psychologie der Selbstwerdung im literarischen Werk von Lou Andreas-Salome. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2001. German Studies Review 26(3) October 2003.
  • Richard W. McCormick, Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity. Film, Literature, and "New Objectivity." New York: Palgrave, 2001. Irene Gammel, Baroness Elsa. Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002. National Women's Studies Association Journal 15 (3) Fall 2003
  • Klaus Kreimeier, The UFA Story. A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company 1918 – 1945. New York: Hill and Wang, 1996. H-Net List on German History, 1997
  • Heide Fehrenbach. Cinema in Democratizing Germany. Chapel Hill: U of NC Press, 1995. H-Net List on German History, 1995

Translations

  • "Besichtigung einer Altstadt," by Ingeborg Bachmann, in Vol. 94 of the German Library series: Ingeborg Bachmann and Christa Wolf: Selected Prose and Drama, Ed. Patricia Herminghouse, New York: Continuum Publishing Group, 1998. pp. 3 - 7.
  • Co-translated with Joachim Ghislain, "Germania - just a Male Construction? Gender, Germanness, and Feminism in East German Women Writers," by Eva Kaufmann, in Gender and Germanness, Eds. Patricia Herminghouse and Magda Mueller. Providence: Berghahn Books, 1997. pp. 290 - 304.

Editing

  • Manuscript reader, Women in German Yearbook, volumes 16 & 17; reviewed manuscript for the German Quarterly in 2004 and 2005; for Seminar in 2005

Presentations and Lectures

  • Chair and organizer of a panel entitled “Pop, Music, and Love: What’s History Got to Do with It?”  ACTFL Annual Meeting, Nashville, November 2006
  • “Celebrating German Alterity in Hollywood Films.”  ACTFL Annual Meeting, Nashville, November 2006
  • “Doris and Fatih: What the Laughing Dali and Turkish Businesswoman Reveal about a German Heimat.”  German Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, September 2006
  • Taught one-day workshop on Doris Dörrie’s Keiner liebt mich at Sewanee Summer Institute for Teachers of German
  • Invited speaker, “They Were Threatening Castration, Man: Germans in The Big Lebowski,” UNC Greensboro, April 2006
  • Commentator, "Victims and Perpetrators: (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture," German Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, September 2005
  • "Surface Sheen and Charged Bodies: Louise Brooks as Lulu in Pandora's Box," Annual Conference of the Literature/Film Association, Dickinson College, October 2005
  • "They Were Threatening Castration, Man: Germans in The Big Lebowski," ACTFL Annual Meeting, Baltimore, November 2005
  • Organized and moderated "Sundav," a forum for students to showcase films made in conjunction with my course on independent cinema, Fall 2004
  • "Adaptation and Autobiographical Auteurism in Three Works by Doris Dörrie." German Studies Association Conference, Washington, October 2004.
  • "The Semiotics of Glass in Downtown Berlin," Faculty Research Group presentation, April, 2004.
  • "Sleepwalking into the New Millennium: Generation Golf and Winterschläfer." ACTFL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 2003
  • "Berlin-Mitte and German Acts of Memory," ACTFL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, November 2003
  • "Wann ist ein Mann ein Mann? Masculinity in Döris Dörrie's Männer and Erleuchtung garantiert," German Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, September 2003
  • "German and American Universities: A Comparison," Edge Hill Rotary Club, March 2003
  • Culpeper Released Time Grant Project, presented at Media Technology Workshop, Davidson College, May 2001
  • "Angst Takes a Holiday in Doris Dörrie's Am I Beautiful," special conference-wide feminist session: Back to the Future: Feminist Utopian Thinking and the Age of Globalization. A joint panel of Women in German, Women in French, Feministas Unidas, and the Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages. 54th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 2001
  • "Mapping Goethe's Wilhelm Meister onto Wim Wenders' Wrong Move," German Studies Association Conference, October 1999
  • "Transgressing Anger: Rhetorical and Corporeal Violence in Jutta Heinrich's Das Geschlecht der Gedanken," 52nd Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, University of Kentucky, April 1999
  • "Of Lost Girls and Fake Diaries: Margarete Böhme's and G.W. Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl," 23rd Annual Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, October 1998
  • "Sweet Young Things and Big Dumb Galoots: a Look at Boundaries Between Adults and Children in Luc Besson's The Professional," Breaking Barriers, Literature and Emerging Issues Conference, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, October 1998
  • "Teutonic Water: Effervescent Otherness in Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me," The New Europe at the Crossroads Conference, St. John's College in York, August 1997
  • Moderator and respondent for a panel entitled "Ideologies of Children's Literature," 19th Century Studies Association Conference, Davidson College, March 1997
  • Led discussion after campus-wide screening of Girl's Town, Women's Month, March 1997
  • "Gone Native: Race Relations in Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me," Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University, October 1996
  • Organized and served as moderator for a panel entitled "Talking Amongst Ourselves vs. Talking Across the Disciplines: Germanics and Interdisciplinarity," German Studies Association Conference, October 1996
  • Led discussion after campus-wide screening of Dreamgirls, a film on women and music videos, September 1996
  • "Race and Identity in Anne Duden's Übergang," German Studies Conference, Duke University, September 1996
  • "Blackness and Abjection in Anne Duden's Übergang," 56th Annual College Language Association Convention, Winston-Salem State University, April 1996
  • Organized, introduced and led discussion after campus-wide screening of Doris Dörrie's Nobody Loves Me, AATG Conference, Davidson College, March 1996
  • "Girl with a Lost Diary?: Tracking the First-Person Singular in Pabst's Tagebuch einer Verlorenen," German Film Colloquium, Hollins College, March 1996
  • Introduced and led discussion for campus-wide screening of The Marriage of Maria Braun, Women's Film Festival, January 1996
  • Introduced Monika Treut and her film The Virgin Machine, led discussion afterwards, German Studies/Cultural Studies Conference, Davidson College, March 1995
  • "Bildung and Bodily Dissemination in Goethe's Confessions of a Beautiful Soul," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, University of Rochester, November 1994
  • "Consolidating, Consuming and Annulling Identity in Jutta Brückner's Hungerjahre," Women in German Conference, St. Augustine, October 1994
  • "Traversing Boundaries in G.W. Pabst's Die freudlose Gasse," National Graduate Student Conference on Weimar Culture, University of Arizona, April 1994
  • "Murder and Resistance in Ingeborg Bachmann's Malina," Woman, Image, Text Conference, Binghamton University, April 1994
  • "Alice's Adventures in Wuppertal: The Search for the Symbolic Mother," Germanic Studies Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, April 1991